Louis V of France

Louis V "the Lazy" of France (966-21 May 987) was briefly King of West Francia from 2 March 986 to 21 May 987, succeeding Lothair of France and preceding Hugh Capet.

Biography
Louis was born in 966, the eldest son of Lothair of France and Emma of Italy. On 8 June 979, he was crowned junior king of the Kingdom of France to ensure that he would succeed his father on his death, but he had barely left puberty when he entered a loveless marriage with the forty-year-old Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou, indulging himself in all sorts of frivolity and ignoring his wife. In 984, his wife tricked him into going to Aquitaine as she left the family and remarried to William I of Provence, and Louis was left without a spouse. On 2 March 986, he succeeded his father as King of France, but he died in a horse riding accident in 987, ending the House of Karling's rule over West Francia and allowing for Hugh Capet to introduce Capetian rule to France.